Charlie Hebdo fights back with another cartoon of Prophet Mohammed

Charlie Hebdo fights back by publishing a cartoon of a grieving Prophet Mohammed

Latest edition of Charlie Hebdo will feature the above

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo since last week’s deadly terror attack will have a print run of 3m and feature the Prophet Mohammed on its cover.

In a defiant move the French satirical magazine, which has been put together by the survivors of the attack and comes out on Wednesday, will feature cartoons depicting Mohammed and other figures, according to its lawyer, Richard Malka.

The cover, which was released on Monday night, shows the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign saying “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”), with the words “Tout est pardonné” (“All is forgiven”) above it on a green background.

Mr Malka said on French radio that this would send a message that the publication would “cede nothing” to extremists seeking to silence them.

“We will not give in. The spirit of ‘Je suis Charlie’ means the right to blaspheme. We will not give in, otherwise all this won’t have meant anything,” he said.

The issue will be printed in 16 languages for readers around the world, according to Patrick Pelloux, one of its columnists. The journal usually has a print run of 60,000 copies.

The survivors of the newsroom massacre last week, when 12 people were killed, have been putting the paper together from Paris’s Libération newspaper offices. Le Monde, the French daily, has provided the computers.